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Magnetic North Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940
ISBN: HB: 9783791359946, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
280 pp., 27.5x23.5 cm, 140 colour illus.
The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in Bri...
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£45,00
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Gerhard Richter Abstraction
ISBN: PB: 9783791359922, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 174 colour illus.
This book focuses solely on the abstract strategies and processes contained in Gerhard Richter's body of work. In the early 1960s, the artist began to call painting into question, an exploration that continues to occupy him to this day. In the 1970s,...
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£27,50
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Lummi Island Cooking
ISBN: HB: 9783791385679, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
208 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 80 colour images 
Everything that Chef Blaine Wetzel makes is sourced within a few miles of his kitchen, often hours after it has been harvested from the ocean, the forest, or his own small farm. Lummi will inspire professional and home chefs to pay close attention to...
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£35,00
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Unnatural History Museum
ISBN: HB: 9783791385198, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 illus. 
For over a decade, from a tiny storefront in east London, the artist Viktor Wynd has been reinventing the cabinet of curiosities for the 21st century. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is now one of the city's most t...
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£35,00
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Van Gogh Still Lifes
ISBN: HB: 9783791358727, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
From his first compositions to the colorful flower images of his late years, Vincent van Gogh repeatedly painted still lifes. In this genre, he could try out various pictorial techniques – from depicting space through light and shadow to experimentat...
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£39,99
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original bauhaus
ISBN: HB: 9783791359045, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
224 pp., 30x24 cm, 155 colour illus., 76 black&white illus.
The Bauhaus existed for only 14 years in Germany, but for the past 100 years its ideas have been passed on and its products relaunched, imitated and further developed. Using 14 famous, familiar, or forgotten objects, this book offers 14 case studies....
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£45,00
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50 Fashion Designers You Should Know New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9783791385891, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
192 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 163 colour and black&white illus.
Fifty major fashion designers are profiled in this book with full-color spreads that showcase their most memorable creations. Red carpet regulars such as Armani, Prada, Calvin Klein, and Dolce & Gabbana are included, as well as the classic clothiers...
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£14,99
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Christian Warlich: Tattoo Flash Book Original Designs by the King of Tattooists
ISBN: HB: 9783791358963, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
128 pp., 32x25 cm, 96 colour and black&white illus.
Christian Warlich was a world famous German tattooist and his flash book is one of the most coveted objects in the tattoo world. It is now available in this exquisite edition that includes over three hundred hand-drawn designs restored to their origi...
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£25,00
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Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting
ISBN: HB: 9783791384061, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
272 pp., 36.4x30 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.
The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in the fields of commerce, science – and art. Still lifes, landscape paintings, and romantic depictions of everyday life became valued by th...
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£99,00
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Baroque Pathways The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome
ISBN: HB: 9783791358093, Prestel Publishing, August 2019
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome host one of the major collections of Italian Baroque paintings. This art has been admired all over Europe. The monarchs aimed to transfer the glamour of Roman Baroque to their courts. In the 18th centu...
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